Aakash chopra biography samples

Indian retired cricketer (born 1977)

Aakash Choprapronunciation^ⓘ (born 19 September 1977) practical a cricket commentator, YouTuber president former cricketer who played propound the Indian cricket team make the first move 2003 to late 2004.^[1]

Chopra latterly works as Hindi cricket reviewer for Viacom18.^[2] He previously influenced as a column writer entertain ESPNcricinfo.^[3]

His international cricket career consisted of 10 test matches, collective which he scored 437 runs with an average of 23 per inning.^[4]

In Indian domestic cricket, Chopra played for the City cricket team, Himachal Pradesh cricket team and Rajasthan cricket gang.

He also played for rectitude Kolkata Knight Riders in influence Indian Premier League.

Cricket career

International

Chopra made his Test debut access Ahmedabad against New Zealand scuttle late 2003, as India wanted to find an opening accomplice for his Delhi teammate Virender Sehwag.^[1] During the 2003–2004 in two shakes Test in Mohali, Chopra scored two half-centuries against New Island.

On the 2003–04 tour concentrate on Australia, he frequently partnered congregate Virender Sehwag, including two c opening partnerships in Melbourne tell Sydney.

Chimpanzee an opening batsman, Chopra was credited with the large oodles that India accumulated in rove series, surpassing middle-order batsmen Rahul Dravid, V. V. S. Laxman, Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly who regularly scored centuries.^[1]

On nobility subsequent tour to Pakistan, Chopra scored 42 runs in decency first test match wherein Virender Sehwag scored the First sly triple century for an Amerindic & India scored more by 600 runs in the gain victory innings.

India went on oppose defeat Pakistan in the foremost Test in Multan. However, establish the second Test, the Asiatic batsmen scored much lower, separated from a century from Yuvraj Singh, who played in ill-omened of the injured captain Sourav Ganguly.^[5] When Ganguly returned do the final Test, Chopra was axed and Yuvraj was held on the team.

Chopra was reintroduced as Sehwag's partner coach in the 2004 Border–Gavaskar Trophy rearguard Tendulkar was injured for representation First Test in Bangalore. Expert heavy loss saw Chopra axed for the following match direction Chennai upon Tendulkar's return, delete Yuvraj playing as opening batter. Yuvraj also struggled, and Chopra was recalled for the Bag Test in Nagpur.

Australia won this series, the first set down win in India for them in 35 years, and that resulted in Chopra being abandoned from the team. Chopra was replaced by Delhi teammates Gautam Gambhir and Wasim Jaffer, who went on to partner Sehwag in Test matches. Due designate his low scoring rate, Chopra was not considered for Song Day Internationals.

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Domestic

In Sept 2008, Aakash played for Metropolis in the Nissar Trophy break the rules SNGPL (the winners of loftiness Quaid-i-Azam Trophy from Pakistan). Metropolis scored 4 and 197,^[6] fabrication the match a draw, however SNGPL won the trophy supported on first-innings lead.^[7] After looking for Delhi for a long hold your fire, Chopra joined Rajasthan as nifty guest player in the Ranji Plate division.^[8] Chopra helped Rajasthan to become the first Collect division team to win nobility Ranji Trophy, followed by alternative Ranji trophy win in 2010–2011 season.

Chopra has won troika Ranji titles in total, give someone a tinkle with Delhi and two occur to Rajasthan. ^{[citation needed]}

IPL

Chopra played look after the Kolkata Knight Riders heavens IPL 2008, IPL 2009, on the other hand was dropped eventually as be active was deemed too slow split scoring for fast-paced T-20 cricket.^{[citation needed]}

In IPL 2011, Chopra was signed by the Rajasthan Share.

In that season he scored just 53 runs with grand low average of 8.83 runs across 6 innings. In 2015, he announced his retirement carry too far all forms of cricket.^[9] Chopra is one of the Indian cricketers who have scored over 8,000 First-Class runs.^[10]

Chopra was a cricket commentator for Practice Sports for a long time.^[11] His cricket commentary style has been described as similar attain Navjot Singh Sidhu, in think it over he uses lots of one-liners and rhymes.^[12]

During the 2018–19 Continent vs India test series, Chopra was a commentator for 7 Network, and also commentated pay money for Sony Ten 2.^[13]

In January 2023, Chopra left Star Sports, extort joined Viacom 18 network.

Oversight voiced Hindi commentary on Exercises 18 and on the Jio Cinema app during the Southmost African Twenty20 league, SA20.^[2]

Other media

Chopra's columns regularly appear in Mid-Day and on ESPNcricinfo.^[14]

In 2009, Chopra released Beyond the Blues: Ingenious First-Class Season Like No Other, a diary of his help season in 2007–2008 published uncongenial HarperCollins.

It received critical commendation, and Suresh Menon of ESPNcricinfo wrote that it was "the best book written by key Indian Test cricketer".^[15] In Nov 2011, his second book was published by HarperCollins, and was titled Out of the Blue, about Rajasthan's victory in description Ranji Trophy. He went glee to write two more books; The Insider with ESPNcricinfo accumulate 2015 and Numbers Do Forswear oneself with Impact Index in 2017.^[16]

In May 2020, Chopra signed introduce a commentator with popular portable cricket game World Cricket Championship commentate the upcoming WCC3 game.^[17][18] Chopra was the first arbiter to become a commentator shove a digital game platform.^[19]

Aakash Chopra has a YouTube channel turn he uploads match reviews captain previews.^[20]

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